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Monilinia oxycocci (Cranberry Cottonball)

Synonyms: Monilia oxycocci; Sclerotinia oxycocci; Stromatinia oxycocci

Wikipedia Abstract

Monilinia oxycocci (Woronin) Honey, (synonym Sclerotinia oxycocci), common names Cranberry Cottonball, Cranberry Hard Rot, Tip Blight, is a fungal infection of the cranberry plant (Vaccinium macrocarpon). The tips of young flowering shoots wilt before they flower. Fruit that does form on the plant can then be infected by the asexual spores traveling through the plant, causing the berries to harden, turn cottony on the inside, and dry out instead of maturing. The berries are filled with a cotton-like fungus and are generally yellowish with tan stripes or blotches at maturity, making them unmarketable. It results in important economic impacts on many cranberry marshes, particularly in Wisconsin.
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Prey / Diet

Vaccinium oxycoccos (small cranberry)[1]
Vaccinium oxycoccos f. microcarpum[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0